now my receiver does not support DTS-HD Decoding, so im trying to use the player (PowerDVD Ultra) to decode it into uncompressed LPCM.

the problem here is the software says INPUT is 7.1 HD, but its only outputting 6 channels.
if you cant help with powerDVD, could you recomend another Blu Ray player with support for LPCM output in 7.1 HD

edit: program is updated. Receiver also does not support 7.1 analogue in

I think everything is working fine and that 2 common misconceptions are are work here. 1) That all Blu ray movies are in 7.1. They are not. There are only a handful that actually are in 7.1. 99% of them are still 5.1 or 2.0. 2) That setting Windows to 7.1 converts everything to 7.1. That is not true either. That just means that soundtracks up to 7.1 will be passed in their original state.

Since HDMI is a two way street, your Sony receiver will have informed Win 7 what formats and number of channels it is capable of decoding. If you click on the Sound option in the Control Panel, select the correct audio device, and then click on the Configure button, Win 7 will show us all the audio options your Sony receiver has told 7 that it is capable of dealing with. We need a screenshot of that.

Since HDMI is a two way street, your Sony receiver will have informed Win 7 what formats and number of channels it is capable of decoding. If you click on the Sound option in the Control Panel, select the correct audio device, and then click on the Configure button, Win 7 will show us all the audio options your Sony receiver has told 7 that it is capable of dealing with. We need a screenshot of that.

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thats the info i was missing and thinking of in the post above yours, that his receiver had somehow limited the channels and outputs automatically. (or powerDVD had done so)

it does indeed support 7.1, i have use'd test files to make sure. the ones that say "front left" Side Right " Back Left"
files are encoded with LPCM and played with VLC with 7.1 selected under audio device. every speaker works as it plays through the test. back speaker says "back left/right" and side speakers say "Side left/right"
Here is a direct download link from Microsoft with the test files i used to check the suround sound. http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/b/1/6b17045c-6ce8-4dc4-a3b5-2717b8711fc8/8Channel.exe

as you can see DTS-HD is not supported, but it does support 8 channels. it also supports PL2 x upmixing.

Well...it does look like you have all the hardware you need. Let's try it this way...DTS-HD is a combo technology. It is composed of a core DTS soundtrack with the HD part as an extension. If you bitstream a 7.1 DTS-MA soundtrack to a receiver that can do 7.1 regular DTS, you should get 7.1 DTS from the receiver. Switch Power DVD to bitstream output and see what happens. You'll lose some fidelity, obviously, but you should get 7.1.

That would be because I'm old. Or, more precisely, because I've been messing with 5.1 digital streaming since it rolled out almost 15 years ago now. I'm a little worried about this one, though. We're battling software (Power DVD) and firmware (Sony). If there is a bug or limitations in either, we just might not be able to get this to work as it should. The fact that we are playing this back from a file minus the DRM might also be a contributing factor. I'm hoping that the DTS 7.1 thing will work if we bitstream from PowerDVD.

By the way, in fairness to PowerDVD, if it was the trial that you were having the problem with, the full regular might be patched to fix the problem you are experiencing. It's not really fair to hold the trial responsible for problems, if it was the trial you were using. It's something to keep in mind anyway before you go bashing PowerDVD or any other software for that matter.

By the way, in fairness to PowerDVD, if it was the trial that you were having the problem with, the full regular might be patched to fix the problem you are experiencing. It's not really fair to hold the trial responsible for problems, if it was the trial you were using. It's something to keep in mind anyway before you go bashing PowerDVD or any other software for that matter.

That would be the old man who tests software for a living talking.

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And no, power dvd just sucks in general. Never had good luck with the full copies or the trials. I know I said I tried trials which I have but then later "got them for free" to make sure it would/wouldn't work. I've been using tmt3 or tmt5 since I built my htpc and wrote the guide in my sig.

idk man.... daft punk made the sound track, there for it cant be a bad movie

neither the trail or full version of PowerDVD solved the problem,....... (i may have downloaded a crack for PowerDVD ultra to see if that would solve the problem after looking at the feature differences between each.) iv come to the conclusion of always trying before buying... after wasting so much money on Horrible games.... never again.

currently using a trail version of total media, if it holds up to the challenge i shall buy it..... not really, ill get dad to buy it

he bought that corel winDVD crap for blu ray playback... i have never liked it and it wont even play independence day from the disk itself on his PC, tried two separate disks, then riped the movie and tried VLC.... worked first time PowerDVD also played both disks.
(latest version of WinDVD)